Taking Freud's ideas on the relation between jealousy, projection and homosexuality as a starting point, this article focuses on the role played by primary masochism and feminine identification in the formation of masculine pathological jealousy. The early conditions of psychic constitution, as seen by the Theory of Generalized Seduction, are linked to primary masochism and feminine identification alike. According to that author, the asymmetric situation between the adult - whose unconscious sexuality is fully developed - and the child - still lacking psychic capacity to deal with the sexual messages coming from the adult - characterizes the fundamental anthropological situation.
Jealousy; masculinity; masochism